I'm not saying he's wasted on the court. If you have n players who all provide the same on court value (VORP, WS, what have you), the best way to compare their value is through their contract. Also, in my eyes, Crowder has more value in terms of his contract than he does on the court. As good as he is defensively, he flounders against elite players, which is one of the reasons we rarely beat teams that have elite offensive SFs (Warriors, Cavs, Spurs; you can look at LeBron's performance over the last 3 years vs. the C's and see that he performs much better when Crowder is playing). He's also replaceable in our system, or at least was before we traded AB. We've had several key, hard fought victories with him injured.

How many starting SFs is he better than? 10? Maybe about 15, but sure you can argue that up or down a little if you want. Then there are all the non starters who are better than him. The point is that he is a great basketball player, but the only reason he's more valuable than Trevor Ariza or Otto Porter or whomever is because of his contract.

Jae Crowder's value is not from his on court production (because, truth be told, he's just okay), but from his contract. He's more valuable as a trade chip than he is as a player and we should try and package him and IT into a trade for Kyrie and a pick

Whenever anyone mentions that he's a valuable player, I want to kick them in the face and ask them how they're defining value. He's only "valuable" because of his production to price ratio. If you're not going to take advantage of that value, then he's not valuable.

So the first time you've brought it up means it's the first time is ever been brought up right? People definitely haven't mentioned this at all since Christmas, that's unthinkable, no one would ever have though to mention this after the last two minutes report came out. No, you are unique. Thank you.

I'm saying both are true. I think that you can't compare different eras because the playstyles are so different. The best you can do is compare players who crossed over eras and see how they adjusted. I also think it's unreasonable to assess a player's performance through advanced stats when they didn't play in a time when those statistics existed, because if they had existed, they most likely would have had better values for those statistics, as that's what they would have been judged on.